Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2-C
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/19/2022           .                                
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       The Committee on Reapportionment (Rodrigues) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 3568 and 3569
    4  insert:
    5         Section 7. Effective upon becoming a law, section 8.062,
    6  Florida Statutes, is created to read:
    7         8.062 Limitation on choice of venue for actions challenging
    8  congressional districts.—Notwithstanding any other provision of
    9  law, state court actions challenging the state’s congressional
   10  districts shall be brought only in Leon County.
   11         Section 8. Effective upon becoming a law, section 8.063,
   12  Florida Statutes, is created to read:
   13         8.063 Limitations on actions challenging congressional
   14  districts.—
   15         (1) Actions challenging the state’s congressional districts
   16  on state constitutional or state law grounds shall be brought
   17  exclusively in state court.
   18         (2) A state court action challenging the state’s
   19  congressional districts may raise any state constitutional or
   20  state law claims, and any federal constitutional or federal law
   21  claims, regarding the state’s congressional districts that are
   22  within the jurisdiction of the circuit court.
   23         (3) Nothing within this section shall be construed to
   24  preclude federal courts from deciding actions challenging the
   25  state’s congressional districts on federal constitutional or
   26  federal law grounds.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 21
   31  and insert:
   32         F.S., relating to severability; creating s. 8.062,
   33         F.S.; requiring actions challenging the state’s
   34         congressional districts to be brought in a specific
   35         venue; creating s. 8.063, F.S.; specifying limitations
   36         for actions challenging the state’s congressional
   37         districts; providing for construction; amending s.
   38         8.07,